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Efficient sorting and iteration on large databases

Posted on June 15, 2009 by kamstrup

Before you read on, heed my words that this post might be a wee bit technical… If not extremely technical – caveat emptor The Problem In our continuous quest for a blazingly fast Summa, we ran into a performance problem … Continue reading →

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Adventures in the land of databases

Posted on March 4, 2009 by kamstrup

The tale of three databases In the olden days Summa used a Postgresql database as a backend for its caching/presentation engine, also called the Storage. Postgresql served us well – good performance and good reliability. The one drawback was that … Continue reading →

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